ThatsTheWayWeGetBy I have installed OpenVPN on a Win 2008 R2 server and on a Win 7 Laptop. After adding a Port forward and turning off both firewalls (I will put an exception in later and turn them back on) the VPN appeared to be connected, but on closer inspection, both Server and the Client VPN are connected to themselves. Both have been given a new IP address; the server = 10.8.0.1 and the Client=10.8.0.6. I have created the config files for the client including the key file (but I suspect there's something wrong with it due to the "one of more arguments are not correct" bit in the connection info. Here's the contents of the connection info from the client: SENT CONTROL [Server01]: 'PUSH_REQUEST' (status=1) PUSH: Received control message: 'PUSH_REPLY,route 10.8.0.1,topology net30,ping 10,ping-restart 120,ifconfig 10.8.0.6 10.8.0.5' OPTIONS IMPORT: timers and/or timeouts modified OPTIONS IMPORT: --ifconfig/up options modified OPTIONS IMPORT: route options modified ROUTE default_gateway=10.170.193.161 TAP-WIN32 device [Local Area Connection 2] opened: \\.\Global\{1359CF5E-DAFA-48FF-93E7-A3997C56FC26}.tap TAP-Win32 Driver Version 9.7 TAP-Win32 MTU=1500 Notified TAP-Win32 driver to set a DHCP IP/netmask of 10.8.0.6/255.255.255.252 on interface {1359CF5E-DAFA-48FF-93E7-A3997C56FC26} [DHCP-serv: 10.8.0.5, lease-time: 31536000] Successful ARP Flush on interface [29] {1359CF5E-DAFA-48FF-93E7-A3997C56FC26} TEST ROUTES: 1/1 succeeded len=1 ret=1 a=0 u/d=up C:\WINDOWS\system32\route.exe ADD 10.8.0.1 MASK 255.255.255.255 10.8.0.5 ROUTE: route addition failed using CreateIpForwardEntry: One or more arguments are not correct. [status=160 if_index=29] Route addition via IPAPI failed [adaptive] Route addition fallback to route.exe OK! Initialization Sequence Completed I would appreciate any help, or pointers. Thanks
maikcat both Server and the Client VPN are connected to themselves. what... :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: 😐 can you post your configs and clarify the above statement? Michael.
ThatsTheWayWeGetBy by that I mean, if I hoover over the OpenVPN in the system tray, on the server it has 'Connected to:server' and the laptop has 'Connected to:laptop'. I would have expected the Client one to perhaps say 'Connected to:Server'. Anyway as it happens, as weird (to me) as that is, I've got the VPN working now so clearly that's the way it's supposed to be 🙂 Thanks for your responce anyway 🙂
m.ardito i think that 'Connected to:laptop' on the laptop means that the client has connected using the "laptop.ovpn" file on the laptop if you rename "laptop.ovpn" to "whatever.ovpn" you will see "connected to:whatever"... Marco
